Health is no longer merely something to preserve. Increasingly, it is treated as a system to be optimized, audited , and refined without end...

Health is no longer merely something to preserve. Increasingly, it is treated as a system to be optimized, audited, and refined without end. Sleep is scored, glucose is tracked, inflammation is monitored, and ageing itself is reframed as a technical problem to be slowed by enough discipline, enough data, enough control. That shift is persuasive because it arrives in the language of responsibility rather than obsession. To want a longer, stronger, clearer life seems not only reasonable but admirable. What makes biohacking more unsettling is that, beneath its rhetoric of self-care, it can turn ordinary vulnerability into a permanent management task.

Recent reporting on what some clinicians are calling “longevity fixation syndrome” gives that impulse a sharper outline. The article describes people whose pursuit of health had expanded into elaborate regimes of testing, tracking, supplementation, and bodily surveillance, often accompanied by mounting anxiety rather than reassurance. In one case, repeated biomarker checks, rigid food control, intensive exercise, and expensive wellness interventions did not produce freedom. They produced submission to numbers. The body, once approached as something to inhabit, became something to monitor. What looked like mastery from the outside was, from within, a form of siege.

That is why biohacking deserves to be read as more than an eccentric wellness fashion. [I] Better sleep, thoughtful nutrition, and exercise can plainly improve health, and it would be foolish to dismiss all experimentation as delusion. [II] The difficulty lies in the wider logic that now gathers around such habits. [III] The same reporting links this fixation to fear of death, loss of control, trauma, and a booming longevity industry that profits by keeping those anxieties active. [IV] In such a climate, insecurity becomes commercially useful. Mortality is not denied exactly. It is monetized, broken into purchasable routines and endlessly refinable protocols.

The deeper danger, then, is not simply medical overreach. It is existential narrowing. Once every missed metric begins to feel like negligence and every indulgence like sabotage, life itself starts to contract around prevention. Pleasure becomes suspect. Spontaneity becomes risk. Biohacking, at its most extreme, does not merely promise self-improvement; it teaches people to experience themselves as unfinished problems requiring constant correction. The question it leaves hanging is difficult and quietly devastating: at what point does the effort to prolong life begin to erode the very thing one hoped to preserve?

[Adapted from The Guardian]

Question 31: Where in the passage does the following sentence best fit?

Some of its practices rest on serious evidence.

A. [I]        B. [II]        C. [III]        D. [IV]

Question 32. The word “audited” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to __________.

A. verified        B. examined        C. tested        D. checked

Question 33. According to paragraph 1, why does the new view of health seem convincing?

A. It presents constant self-monitoring as a responsible way of living.

B. It suggests that technology can completely stop the ageing process.

C. It removes the need for discipline by making health easier to manage.

D. It treats physical weakness as a problem faced only by unhealthy people.

Question 34. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to paragraph 2?

A. Highly controlled health routines could leave people more dependent on measurement than at ease in their own bodies.

B. Some people’s pursuit of wellness expanded into demanding patterns of testing, regulation, and close bodily oversight.

C. The more intensively these individuals tracked themselves, the more secure and internally free they tended to become.

D. What appeared outwardly to be discipline and command could inwardly resemble pressure and confinement.

Question 35. In paragraph 2, the phrase “that impulse” refers to __________.

A. the urge to prevent ageing by purchasing more wellness solutions

B. the broader drive to keep the body under continuous refinement and supervision

C. the desire to escape illness through stricter medical treatment

D. the tendency to compare one person’s health results with another’s

Question 36. Which of the following best summarises paragraph 3?

A. Biohacking attracts criticism mainly because profitable industries have replaced all meaningful evidence with exaggerated promises of control.

B. Some biohacking practices may be sound in themselves, yet the larger culture around them can feed on fear and turn insecurity into market demand.

C. The strongest reason to distrust biohacking is that it disguises trauma and fear of death as harmless interest in food, sleep, and exercise.

D. Longevity culture becomes persuasive chiefly because ordinary medicine offers too little guidance on how to manage uncertainty and decline.

Question 37. Which of the following best paraphrases the underlined sentence in paragraph 3?

A. Rather than pretending death does not exist, the industry turns anxiety about it into products and repeatable habits people can keep buying.

B. Instead of selling fear, wellness culture mainly offers hopeful language that helps people accept physical decline more calmly.

C. The market for longevity grows because people no longer believe doctors can guide them through uncertainty and ageing.

D. Biohacking proves that disciplined routines can eventually remove the limits once attached to human mortality.

Question 38. According to paragraph 4, what is the most likely consequence of treating every missed metric as negligence?

A. People may become better at balancing enjoyment with long-term health goals.

B. Life may grow narrower as avoidance begins to govern choices once shaped by ease or pleasure.

C. Individuals may rely less on prevention because constant vigilance proves emotionally tiring.

D. Ordinary risks may appear easier to judge once they are translated into measurable targets.

Question 39. Which of the following is most likely implied by the passage?

A. Health routines become dangerous only when they are based on expensive tools rather than ordinary daily habits.

B. Anxiety around ageing would largely disappear if people were given clearer medical guidance and fewer wellness choices.

C. Even reasonable efforts to care for the body can become self-defeating when they are absorbed into a mindset ruled by fear, control, and endless correction.

D. Commercial wellness culture succeeds mainly because people prefer simple routines to the uncertainty of evidence-based medicine.

Question 40. Which of the following best summarises the passage?

A. Longer life becomes more attainable when disciplined routines and close measurement replace casual, habit-based approaches to wellbeing.

B. A reasonable desire to stay well can harden into anxious self-surveillance when tracking, commercial incentives, and the wish for control begin to reorganise daily life.

C. Modern wellness culture becomes most damaging when costly interventions overshadow basic practices such as sleep, diet, and exercise.

D. Repeated health monitoring creates distress chiefly because many people misread useful advice and apply it with unnecessary intensity.